Applied Campbell and Fiske's multitrait, multimethod analysis to scores from 3 measures of career development (Attitude Scale of Career Maturity Inventory, Vocational Preference Inventory, and Decision-Making Scale of Career Development Inventory) completed by 129 college students. Table of multitrait, multimethod correlation coefficients for the…

Reviews factors operating to limit employment and career progression of observant Jews. Discusses specific religious practices that could hamper upward mobility and mistaken perceptions of these practice by superiors and co-workers. Considers additional reasons for possible discrimination against observant Jews and supporting research. Discusses…

Applies the social cognitive career theory to training career counselors. Proposes extending the theory to understand and influence trainees' interest, engagement, and performance in career counseling. Suggestions are made for future research and for training students to be interested, involved, and skilled in providing career counseling. (FC)

Evaluates job search clubs for internationals students. Participants had greater career self-efficacy, vocational identity, and required less information regarding their occupational choice. Content analysis of open-ended evaluation items revealed suggestions for program improvements including the importance of discussing the U.S. culture and…

Proposes a hierarchical model based on self-psychology that predicts a reduction in career indecision after a career intervention. Tested model's validity in a study of college students (N=107). Study showed model partially supported with goal instability, self-esteem, and interest pattern predicting change in career indecision level after career…

Reviews the history of the Strong Interest Inventory and the legacy of its creator, E. K. Strong Jr. Focuses on Strong's development of the inventory method and use of criterion-related scale development. Outlines trends in content-related scale developments, innovations in the inventory, and future directions for predicting career behavior. (RJM)

Examined the psychometric properties of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) when used with a behavioral item-response scale. Results support the hypothesized unidimensionality of the ACCI-B Exploration subscales, need for occupational information, career choice certainty, and career indecision. Discusses implications for counselors. (RJM)

Using data for 2,722 British adolescents explores whether work-related skills and career role models are associated with career maturity when sociodemographic characteristics, family support, and personal characteristics are controlled. Having work-related skills and having a career role model were positively associated with career maturity.…

Administered follow-up questionnaire and Ramak Interest Inventory to 260 Israeli men and women who had first completed the interest inventory as high school seniors 19 years earlier. Found vocational interests to be moderately stable, but unrelated to satisfaction at follow-up. Suggests counseling toward appropriate within-occupation specialties.…

Describes two-week summer program for adolescent girls featuring awareness of nontraditional career choices provided via cooperative plan from public school system, community college, and university. Notes that, upon completion of 80 hours of activities such as business and industry visitations, technical/trade shop hands-on activities, and…

Multiple self-referent model provides comprehensive framework for understanding aspects of self-concept formation in African-American women and has implications for understanding career development issues for Black women. Uses excerpts from recorded interviews and autobiographical writings of four well-known African-American women to illustrate…

Elementary school, secondary school, and college students rated 12 jobs divided between primarily female, primarily male, and gender-neutral occupations according to how much they should make if they were in the occupation. A significant interaction was found between type of job and gender for pay expectations. Suggestions for use in applied…

Details a collaborative venture to develop, implement, and evaluate a career intervention program for 7th-grade students who were at risk for vocational underachievement. Suggestions are provided for improving on the development and evaluation of career exploration programs to enhance career self-efficacy and broaden the career horizons of…

Reviews 50 years of empirical literature on career decision making, summarizing 10 things the field knows "for sure." Presents an anti-introspectivist view of career decision making arguing that mental processing for decision making and behavior initiation is not performed at a conscious level and reflection on these processes may be…

Reviews the career literature published in 1999 that focused on issues related to the identification and implementation of career choices. Discussion is organized into three major areas: publications related to theoretical approaches; new assessment instruments; and career interventions and programs. (Contains 219 references.) (Author/GCP)